London Live

Not a bad programme, though. Half an hour would probably have been enough - but a decent debate. I thought the documentary beforehand was excellent, too.

Agreed, the documentary was good and one of the strongest current affairs programmes to date. I haven't seen such good local documentary since The London Programme on LWT.

As for the debate, for a channel that during the week is so desperate for interaction from viewers that LL staffers tweet into the shows, it was lacking considerably. Like you, I agree that 60 minutes was too long. A small audience would have also benefited the debate.

Of course they are because that is trendy and hipster and the place to be seen.

The London Marathon probably isn't.

Regarding the swearing, shows how all the staff are unexperianced that neither the presenter or gallery realised and knew to give a quick apology. (Assuming it was a strong one, you can say the lighter ones before 9pm thesedays)

The word was b***ocks. That word would almost certainly get an instant apology if on BBC London or ITV News London.

No point apologising when you've got virtually no one watching !
Anyway their target demographic are unlikely to be offended, or even notice.

Not usually interested in news presentation, but I love how this screams "GO BACK TO BED".

Have a look at p11 of this for a precedent of how OFCOM consider the word to be mild http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb75/issue75.pdf

I don't think they have too much to worry about.

Headline London had a feature on the London Marathon featuring a Londoner who participated by providing a report which appeared to come from an iPhone edited using a standard PC editing package.

The 'guest' wasn't captioned, but Claudia-Liza mentioned her name is Phoebe Luckhurst, who happens to be on the payroll as a features writer for the Standard.

Aside from the obvious, overwhelming problems with Vanessa's delivery of the traffic and weather they really need her to be stood on a platform or something when she's using that touchscreen. The framing is just awful, the gap between the top of her head and the top of the screen is huge.

Seriously, we should be sending these to Private Eye. This is great.

How is it acceptable that the 6pm 'News' bulletin on London Live has just a single story - the launch of the .london domain name - and a perfunctory weather forecast?

Is that really the best we can do in a world city?